I carried out several expeditions in the Sahara desert, in Morocco, close to the border with Algeria. In this region the desert is not only a stretch of dunes with scattered palm trees here and there, as a lot of people believe, but instead is a chaos of dazzling white empty basins, dark mountains and, of course, dunes whose colours change continuously. What I like mostly in the desert is the fact that even if the visual and sensory inputs are not as strong as in mountains or forests, in such simplicity and detail becomes incredibly strong. This means that in the beginning you feel lost, almost bored, thinking “is this all?”, but then slowly such feelings convert into a drug, an endless will to explore and discover what there is beyond the next dune. Desert environments cover a great part of our planet and shelter an enormous biodiversity, but unfortunately nowadays conservation efforts are mostly focused on tropical areas, and many species of the Saharan fauna already disappeared.